Emily Zrostlik joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Iowa in Fall 2023. She earned her B.A. in communication sciences and disorders from the University of Northern Iowa in 2019, and she earned her M.A. in speech-language pathology from the University of Iowa in 2021. She spent her time working as a speech-language pathologist and research associate before returning for her Ph.D.

Emily works with Dr. Kristi Hendrickson in the Psycholinguistics lab where she studies language outcomes and mechanisms in individuals with Developmental Language Disorder.